Jim attended A1 Fighter Pilot Training Class 69-08/08A at Hurlburt Field in Florida where he graduated on 8 May 69.
Be sure to check out the web site of the A-1 Skyraider Association.
My Uncle Jim, whom I never met, flew the Douglas A1-H "Skyraider" during Vietnam. He was an Air Force pilot with the 602 Special Operations Squadron out of Nakhon Phanom (NKP), Thailand. Jim flew in Search and Rescue as well as Search and Destroy missions in "the secret war" in Laos. On such a mission on October 27th 1969, we're told his plane crashed into a mountainside...
